Olympiaregion Seefeld
| Olympiaregion Seefeld | |
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| legal form | Community association |
| Seat | Seefeld, Klosterstr. 43 |
| founding | 2003
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| place | Seefeld iT |
| Members | Beeches , Leutasch , Mösern , Reith bei Seefeld , Scharnitz , Seefeld in Tirol |
| Website | www.seefeld.com |
 
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The Olympiaregion Seefeld is a tourist region in Tyrol . It provides the entire infrastructure as a Nordic center in the winter sports and extensive offers of the summer season .
geography
The region is made up of the communities Seefeld in Tirol , Leutasch , Reith bei Seefeld , Scharnitz and the two Telfer villages Mösern and Buchen . Seefeld is the core of the region.
It includes the Seefeld Plateau , Leutasch Valley and Scharnitz Basin .
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history
Seefeld was already the venue for the Nordic ski disciplines of the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck ( 1964 and 1976 ). Nine years after the second Olympic Winter Games, the Nordic World Ski Championships took place in Seefeld in 1985 .
The Air & Style Snowboard Contest was held here between 2000 and 2004.
The FIS Nordic Combined World Cup has been taking place since 2000 - in 2011 for the ninth time in a row . By hosting such major events, the aim is to pave the way for another Nordic World Ski Championships in the region.
On January 1st, 2003 the local tourism associations merged to form the municipal association Tourismusverband Olympiaregion Seefeld .
Nordic sports were also held here at the Winter Youth Olympic Games , which were held for the first time in January 2012 . This makes Seefeld and Innsbruck three-time Olympic hosts.
On June 5, 2014, the Olympiaregion Seefeld was awarded the contract to host the 2019 Nordic World Cup at the FIS Congress in Barcelona.
economy
With 1.9 million overnight stays and around 369,000 arrivals (as of 2004), the Olympiaregion Seefeld was the sixth most popular destination in Tyrol. It provided 15,555 guest beds , with 56% of the total overnight stays in the three to five star category (45% bed share) and around 22% in private beds (30% bed share).
The destination is distinctive all year round, with a balanced distribution of overnight stays, with 124 full days ( occupancy 35%, tourism year 2004). The average length of stay is five days (priority week holidays). The core markets are Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland and Austria (75% of the total annual overnight stays, including 46% Germany).
The association has a total budget of approx. € 4.2 million (2007, 5% of the total budget of the tourist regions of Tyrol),
In the tourism year 2012/13 there were almost 400,000 arrivals (an increase of 10 percent compared to the previous year) and a good 1.9 million overnight stays (plus 3 percent), the budget was € 4.4 million.
Infrastructure
Winter sports
The Seefeld Plateau receives a lot of fresh snow in winter, but is protected from the foehn. and is considered snow reliable. Because of its topographical and microclimatic conditions, it is also known as the Siberia of Tyrol , daytime temperatures below −20 ° C are not uncommon.
The region has 279 km of trails (classic 154 km, skating 125 km, 3 km Seefeld – Mösern night trail) at an altitude of between 1,180 m and 1,550 m. After Leutasch, Seefeld was one of the first communities to introduce a trail fee.
The two alpine ski areas in Seefeld are connected by a free ski bus.
- The slopes in the northeast on Seefelder Joch and Härmelekopf are accessed by Bergbahnen Rosshütte Seefeld-Tirol-Reith AG (main shareholder: Seefeld municipality) with a total of nine lifts (one funicular, three 6-seater chairlifts, two gondola lifts, three drag lifts)
- The Gschwandtkopf , located south of Seefeld, has eight privately operated lifts (a 4-seater chair lift, a single chair lift, and surface lifts).
These ski areas are largely independent of snow: the slopes of the Rosshütte are 100% snowable with energy-saving HKD snow lances and from their own storage lake, those of the Gschwandtkopf can also be almost completely snowed by means of low-pressure propeller snow -making from the public water supply.
- In addition, the Geigenbühellift and the Birkenlifts (both drag lifts) are located in the immediate vicinity of the center of Seefeld .
The Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze is also located on the northwest slope of the Gschwandtkopf - otherwise the nearby Bergiselsschanze in Innsbruck is also available as a jumping center for major events.
There are also offers such as horse-drawn sleigh rides, ice stock sport , ice skating, snowshoeing , tobogganing , snowfun sports (snowrafting), and over 140 km of winter hiking trails and 70 km for running and Nordic walking are prepared.
Summer tourism and all-season offers
The network of paths in summer comprises over 650 km, over 266 km routes for running and Nordic walking. For mountain and fitness bikers, the Seefeld plateau offers around 570 km of cycle paths. E-bikes have been available to rent at 17 rental stations since summer 2011, and Segway tours are possible in both summer and winter. Starting from the spa park, a geology educational trail leads through the Hermannstal, which introduces boulders from the region deposited by the Ice Age glaciers and describes their origin.
In Wildmoos there is an 18-hole golf course (Golfclub Seefeld-Wildmoos) , next to it there is the Golfacademy Seefeld (9 holes) and the panoramic golf course Seefeld am Geigenbühel. There is also a casino on site.
In Seefeld there is a large adventure pool (Olympic and congress center) with indoor and outdoor pools, 140 m white water and 110 m SilverStar family slide and spacious sauna areas. There are also riding halls, a tennis hall with eight places, in which, among other things, the senior European championships are held, as well as six clay courts at the Seefeld tennis club and others next to the tennis hall. Since 2011 there has been an asphalt roller ski track with the possibility of roller skibiathlon .
Hospitality and hotel industry
There are three five-star hotels and 39 four-star hotels in Seefeld , which results in one of the highest four and five-star hotel densities of all Austrian regions. One of the most important hotels is the 5 * -superior-Großhotel Interalpen Tyrol in Telfs-Buchen.
Awards
- The Seefeld Olympic Region has been prepared by ADAC, entitled Best cross-country area in 2007 awarded
- In the reader poll of DSV Atlas Ski the field at No. 1 was of 232 worldwide nominated areas in the category Excellent trails ranked
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The "Olympic" story , seefeld.com
- ↑ Karl Morgenstern: Where cross-country skiing becomes a cult . In: The time . 17th January 1975.
- ↑ a b c d e f Caroline Maria Suitner: Analysis and evaluation of the brand management strategies of selected Tyrolean tourism regions as a decision-making basis for the brand management of the “Tiroler Lech” nature reserve region . Diploma thesis Management Center Innsbruck, degree program Economics & Management for Professionals. Innsbruck 2004, 4.2.6 Tourism Association Olympiaregion Seefeld , p. 93 ff . ( rw-oberwallis.ch [PDF]).
- ↑ Record year for the region! , in: PLateauzeitung 1/2013, p. 5.
- ↑ Fred Fettner: Cross-country skiers have to pay . In: The time . January 11, 1991.
Competition venues for the 1964 Winter Olympics
